nankerphelge wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2010 at 8:30am:
Sure - it's easy to "know" somethng without the facts to support it.
Oh, MAN...that is FUNNY. Since it's Good Friday, I'll spare you the list of things that you and your friends (because like it or not you are lumped in with Mr. Riffhard) "knew", with or without supporting "facts", in the past nine years.
nankerphelge wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2010 at 8:30am:
Most public officials, espcially Presidential candidates, are scrutinized academically and for good reason. It is helpful to understand that person's qualifications for a job based on past performance and positions on issues. Except in this case where Obama has never permitted release of his academic history.
Oh, it's helpful, is it? OK, let's see...as I've often pointed out, our choices were limited in the 2008 election. John McCain, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Barack Obama. Let's see (briefly) what we "knew" about their academic histories.
http://www.eduinreview.com/John McCain: There’s no doubt that John McCain’s military record is exemplary. The same cannot be said for his academic record. McCain won’t release his Naval Academy GPA or his transcripts, but he did admit to graduating fifth from the bottom of his class! That’s 894 out of 899.
Was
Sarah Palin a success or a failure in college? The Internet is positively abuzz with that question, but the answer is a mystery.
Sarah Palin attended six different colleges before she finally graduated with a degree in Communications/Journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987. Sources say that as a kid, she was kind of a bookworm, but that at college she didn’t distinguish herself. But really, that’s about all we know.
Palin really ought to just come out and tell us her GPA. Seriously, nobody seems to care that Joe Biden graduated 506 out of 688 from his class, or that McCain finished nearly dead last in his. I mean, how much worse could Palin’s record be? Americans seem to be more put off by evasiveness than they are by poor grades, so she may as well just release her transcripts.
Joe Biden didn’t do particularly well in college at all.
Biden attended the University of Delaware at Newark, where he earned a degree in history and political science in 1965. According to Paul Taylor’s See How they Run: Electing the President in an Age of Mediaocracy, Biden graduated 506 out of 688 in his class. Somehow, he managed to get into the Syracuse University College of Law. There, he admits that he underperformed as a law student, unlike Barack Obama, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law.
So how did
Barack Obama fare in college?
It’s unclear how well he did as an undergraduate, although he was not a distinguished student. Obama refuses to release his transcript from his undergraduate years. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Obama was not well-known among classmates after he transferred to Columbia University from Occidental College in the early 1980s. The article quotes a former roommate who states that Obama’s performance improved after he stopped taking drugs (which Obama has admitted to openly). Since Obama did not graduate with honors, that means his GPA was between a 2.0 and a 3.3 — although, since he was admitted to Harvard Law School, it’s hard to imagine his GPA was much lower than a 3.3.
Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 with a degree in political science. He specialized in international relations.
Law school was another story for Obama. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (the second highest honor available) in 1991. He also was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, a very prestigious honor.
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So...the only one of the people we had to choose from who DID release his or her records was Joe Biden. And from what we can see from the available information, among these four it wasn't even close. Based upon academics alone, it seems like America made the correct choice.
nankerphelge wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2010 at 8:30am:
What is he hiding?
And why do his supporters shrug it off reflexively?
More proof of an empty suit?
It reminds them a lot of the whole birth certificate thing. They'd rather have an empty suit than an empty head. (hiccup).